Wednesday, February 17, 2010

JCrew Completely Preppy or Not So Much?

Oh J.Crew, I love you, truly I do... but darling, honestly... you're so hit and miss. Completely unreliable, and I'm not quite sure if there is another love in my life who can so completely get it right, while simultaneously be so diametrically opposite of preppy. These un-preppy looks of yours J.Crew, make me want to hide my head in the sand for the next roll out...

Recent examples:

J.Crew Jelly Shoes ("Rainy Day Ballet Flats") - what is wrong with a good ole pair of wellies?

These remind me of the shoes Smurfette wore.

J. Crew Camo? Even with a pretty name like "Blossom" the pattern still looks like something one would wear on "America's Greatest Deer Hunters."

And perhaps the grossest offense yet, Really J.Crew rolled up sweat shorts? Paired with a ruffle vest, REALLY? I'm pretty sure you can name them whatever you want, they are still rolled up sweat shorts. And for heavens sake, run a comb through that poor girls hair...

I am now stepping off of my soap box, but please, J.Crew, darling, can we at least return to the era where we pretended to be preppy?

8 comments:

I totally agree! I don't get JCrew's advertising right now.On another note, I just started following you...and thank you for your encouragement on my last post!! I couldn't find an email to email you about it. But yes, let's stick behind one another! :-)

I completely hear you! But then I guess they have a wide age range to appeal to. I started wearing JCrew in High School and that was more than 20 years ago....So if a 17 year old and a 40 year old shop in the same store there a going to be some issues.